Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 672 386 785
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 10.63% 13.50% 12.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.07% 50.46% 45.85%
Number of salaries quoted 308 285 711
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £73,188 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.93% -9.23%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,525 765 1,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 24.13% 26.76% 27.06%
Number of salaries quoted 800 550 1,472
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex +3 166 £38,750 -3.13% 23
Cambridgeshire -2 147 £56,550 +19.05% 26
Hertfordshire -6 136 £60,000 +8.77% 50
Suffolk +35 103 £48,370 -3.26% 11
Norfolk +2 89 £58,000 +66.83% 23
Bedfordshire +4 29 £31,500 -40.57% 26
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 71 (10.57%) SharePoint
2 31 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.34%) WordPress
4 8 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.19%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.89%) CMS
6 3 (0.45%) SAS
7 2 (0.30%) Luigi
8 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 82 (12.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.34%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.34%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.30%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.30%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 144 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
1 144 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 119 (17.71%) Azure AI
3 87 (12.95%) AWS
3 87 (12.95%) Entra ID
4 46 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (5.95%) PowerApps
6 37 (5.51%) Power Automate
7 36 (5.36%) OneDrive
8 34 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 33 (4.91%) Azure Logic Apps
10 22 (3.27%) GitHub
11 21 (3.13%) GCP
12 19 (2.83%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 17 (2.53%) SaaS
14 16 (2.38%) IaaS
15 13 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (1.64%) Azure AKS
17 10 (1.49%) Azure Storage
17 10 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 58 (8.63%) Firewall
2 29 (4.32%) VPN
3 28 (4.17%) DNS
4 17 (2.53%) DHCP
5 14 (2.08%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.93%) Internet
6 13 (1.93%) WAN
7 10 (1.49%) VoIP
8 9 (1.34%) LAN
9 8 (1.19%) Wireless
10 7 (1.04%) Broadband
10 7 (1.04%) Network Security
11 6 (0.89%) DMZ
12 4 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
12 4 (0.60%) VLAN
12 4 (0.60%) WLAN
13 3 (0.45%) SSL
14 2 (0.30%) L2TP
14 2 (0.30%) OpenVPN
15 1 (0.15%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (19.20%) Power BI
2 85 (12.65%) Tableau
3 67 (9.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (4.02%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 17 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (2.08%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.89%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.89%) Looker
10 6 (0.89%) MySQL
10 6 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.45%) Metadata
12 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.30%) Big Data
13 2 (0.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (2.08%) Git
2 10 (1.49%) JIRA
3 6 (0.89%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.89%) MLflow
4 2 (0.30%) Selenium
4 2 (0.30%) Yeoman
5 1 (0.15%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.15%) JMeter
5 1 (0.15%) Postman
5 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 379 (56.40%) Social Skills
2 76 (11.31%) Finance
3 28 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (3.87%) Law
5 14 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (2.08%) Public Sector
6 13 (1.93%) Legal
7 12 (1.79%) Marketing
8 11 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.34%) Multimedia
9 9 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.34%) Retail
10 7 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.74%) Advertising
11 5 (0.74%) Publishing
12 4 (0.60%) Banking
12 4 (0.60%) Games
12 4 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.60%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.45%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 178 (26.49%) Analyst
2 154 (22.92%) Junior
3 152 (22.62%) Junior Analyst
4 96 (14.29%) Developer
5 80 (11.90%) Security Analyst
6 79 (11.76%) IT Support
7 77 (11.46%) Data Analyst
8 76 (11.31%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 76 (11.31%) Junior Data Analyst
8 76 (11.31%) Junior Security Analyst
9 60 (8.93%) Ethical Hacker
10 49 (7.29%) Senior
11 40 (5.95%) IT Engineer
12 38 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
12 38 (5.65%) Support Engineer
13 36 (5.36%) .NET Developer
14 33 (4.91%) Network Engineer
15 32 (4.76%) Lead
16 30 (4.46%) IT Support Engineer
17 28 (4.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.67%) CSS
2 64 (9.52%) .NET
3 57 (8.48%) HTML
4 55 (8.18%) .NET Core
5 36 (5.36%) ASP.NET
6 35 (5.21%) ASP.NET Core
7 22 (3.27%) HTML5 Canvas
7 22 (3.27%) JSON
7 22 (3.27%) React
8 19 (2.83%) Microsoft Graph
8 19 (2.83%) SPFx
9 18 (2.68%) Node.js
9 18 (2.68%) RESTful
10 17 (2.53%) ML.NET
10 17 (2.53%) REST
11 16 (2.38%) Entity Framework
12 12 (1.79%) Blazor
13 10 (1.49%) AngularJS
13 10 (1.49%) jQuery
14 9 (1.34%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.93%) Cyberattack
2 33 (4.91%) Cloud Native
3 20 (2.98%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.08%) Driving Licence
4 14 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (1.93%) Security Posture
6 12 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (1.04%) Clustering
8 7 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.04%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.04%) PKI
8 7 (1.04%) Robotics
9 6 (0.89%) Blog
9 6 (0.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (0.89%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.89%) Product Ownership
9 6 (0.89%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 98 (14.58%) Windows
2 60 (8.93%) Windows Server
3 16 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (1.93%) Linux
5 12 (1.79%) Android
6 10 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (1.19%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.89%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.74%) VMS
10 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (31.99%) Cybersecurity
2 171 (25.45%) AI
3 131 (19.49%) Business Intelligence
4 127 (18.90%) Mentoring
5 87 (12.95%) Agile
6 71 (10.57%) DevOps
7 68 (10.12%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (8.93%) Ethical Hacking
9 59 (8.78%) CI/CD
10 55 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (7.29%) Machine Learning
12 41 (6.10%) Full-Stack Development
13 39 (5.80%) Roadmaps
14 36 (5.36%) Computer Science
15 35 (5.21%) Project Management
16 34 (5.06%) User Experience
17 32 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
17 32 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
18 31 (4.61%) Analytics
18 31 (4.61%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 196 (29.17%) SQL
2 149 (22.17%) Python
3 97 (14.43%) C#
4 57 (8.48%) JavaScript
5 45 (6.70%) PowerShell
6 29 (4.32%) TypeScript
7 24 (3.57%) PHP
8 13 (1.93%) Java
9 9 (1.34%) C++
10 8 (1.19%) R
11 7 (1.04%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.60%) Bash
13 3 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.30%) Bicep
14 2 (0.30%) Scala
15 1 (0.15%) Ruby
15 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 288 (42.86%) Azure Certification
2 81 (12.05%) CompTIA Security+
3 77 (11.46%) CompTIA CySA+
4 63 (9.38%) Degree
5 60 (8.93%) CEH
6 40 (5.95%) Security Cleared
7 38 (5.65%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (4.76%) CCNA
9 28 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
10 27 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (3.57%) SC Cleared
12 16 (2.38%) AWS Certification
13 10 (1.49%) DV Cleared
14 9 (1.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (1.04%) CISSP
15 7 (1.04%) DBS Check
15 7 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
16 6 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.83%) GDPR
1 19 (2.83%) QA
2 15 (2.23%) SLA
3 14 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.93%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.93%) NIST
5 12 (1.79%) GRC
6 9 (1.34%) NCSC
7 8 (1.19%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.04%) JSP 440
8 7 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 4 (0.60%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.45%) PMO
12 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.15%) IFRS
13 1 (0.15%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 100 (14.88%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.98%) Hyper-V
4 13 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.49%) Docker
6 7 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.89%) vSphere
8 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 37 (5.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (2.98%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.53%) Terraform
4 7 (1.04%) Ansible
5 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.60%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.60%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.15%) Grafana
6 1 (0.15%) Nessus
6 1 (0.15%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.15%) SCCM
6 1 (0.15%) SQL Sentry
6 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 483 (71.88%) Microsoft
2 160 (23.81%) ForeScout
3 41 (6.10%) Cisco
4 24 (3.57%) VMware
5 19 (2.83%) Adobe
6 18 (2.68%) Apple
6 18 (2.68%) Databricks
7 12 (1.79%) Google
7 12 (1.79%) SAP
8 11 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.49%) Veeam
10 9 (1.34%) Epicor
10 9 (1.34%) SolarWinds
11 8 (1.19%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.19%) Meraki
12 7 (1.04%) Aruba
13 6 (0.89%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.89%) Dell
13 6 (0.89%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.89%) Salesforce